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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Just for the sake of accuracy, what Friedman says in that clip is that after the "puck-flipping" incident the players held a meeting and Tkachuk felt confused by mixed-messages he was receiving. To be clear, here, we don't know what was said, nor by whom or why specifically.
I am not ready to side with anyone without knowing what actually happened and why. There are dozens of ways to spin a "players meeting which made Tkachuk upset and confused."
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I'm not really "siding" with anyone here either. What seems to be indisputable is there was some type of conversation or discussion amongst the team relating back to Tkachuk's reaction to the incident and for much of the season afterwards, Tkachuk IMO looked disengaged on the ice.
People can blame who they want for this, but speaking for myself, I was disappointed with his play. Not the captain material, drag his team into battle kind of leader we could use.